Stress‐induced DNA methylation changes and their heritability in asexual dandelions

KJF Verhoeven, JJ Jansen, PJ Van Dijk… - New …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation can cause heritable phenotypic modifications in the absence of changes in
DNA sequence. Environmental stresses can trigger methylation changes and this may have …

Expression strategies for the efficient synthesis of antimicrobial peptides in plastids

MP Hoelscher, J Forner, S Calderone, C Krämer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) kill microbes or inhibit their growth and are promising next-
generation antibiotics. Harnessing their full potential as antimicrobial agents will require …

Metabolic engineering tanshinone biosynthetic pathway in Salvia miltiorrhiza hairy root cultures

G Kai, H Xu, C Zhou, P Liao, J **ao, X Luo, L You… - Metabolic …, 2011 - Elsevier
Tanshinone is a group of active diterpenes widely used in treatment of cardiovascular
diseases. Here, we report the introduction of genes encoding 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl …

Lead contamination reduces chlorophyll biosynthesis and genomic template stability in Brassica rapa L.

S Cenkci, İH Ciğerci, M Yıldız, C Özay, A Bozdağ… - … and experimental botany, 2010 - Elsevier
In recent years, multiple biomarker systems have been frequently used to measure the
genotoxic effects of environmental pollutants on living organisms. In this research, fodder …

The ArabidopsisREF8 gene encodes the 3‐hydroxylase of phenylpropanoid metabolism

R Franke, JM Humphreys, MR Hemm… - The Plant …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The activity of p‐coumarate 3‐hydroxylase (C3H) is thought to be essential for the
biosynthesis of lignin and many other phenylpropanoid pathway products in plants; …

Phenotypic plasticity in plant defense across life stages: Inducibility, transgenerational induction, and transgenerational priming in wild radish

M Sobral, L Sampedro, I Neylan, D Siemens… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
As they develop, many plants deploy shifts in antiherbivore defense allocation due to
changing costs and benefits of their defensive traits. Plant defenses are known to be primed …

Hybridization, missing wild ancestors and the domestication of cultivated diploid bananas

J Sardos, C Breton, X Perrier… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hybridization and introgressions are important evolutionary forces in plants. They contribute
to the domestication of many species, including understudied clonal crops. Here, we …

Multiple shifts to different pollinators fuelled rapid diversification in sexually deceptive Ophrys orchids

H Breitkopf, RE Onstein, D Cafasso… - New …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Episodes of rapid speciation provide unique insights into evolutionary processes underlying
species radiations and patterns of biodiversity. Here we investigated the radiation of …

Screening of rice landraces for salinity tolerance at seedling stage through morphological and molecular markers

MN Ali, L Yeasmin, S Gantait, R Goswami… - … and Molecular biology …, 2014 - Springer
The present investigation was carried out to evaluate 33 rice landrace genotypes for
assessment of their salt tolerance at seedling stage. Growth parameters like root length …